American chess ratings...

[Truronian]

I was wondering what a good chess rating is in the US system. I haven't played chess in a long while and am just getting back into it, it would be nice to know how my rating stands.

 

[nc-1701]

Well anything over 2000 is Extremely good I'm 1256 and according to the calc on their site uschess.org thats like 93 percentile for kids and 45~ for adults so 1500~ is a decent player under a thousend is pretty bad if your an adult.

 

[Millman]

1800 means you know more than the basics. I would agree 2000 (expert) is a good level. If you mean good good, you need to be master (2200) is really the level for it.

So 1800 - 2300.